Even five years after go-live, many health systems aren't realizing the full value of their electronic health records, says a new Chartis Group report. Gaining clinical and financial ROI depends on a "sustained, organized approach."

In order to address some of these challenges facing ED care teams, Healthcare leaders in Texas partnered with Salt Lake City-based company Collective Medical to give care teams across the state access to the Collective network and care coordination platform.

According to KLAS researchers, “while vendor performance is low across the board, most frustrated customers plan to stay with their behavioral health vendor due to limited resources and a lack of compelling alternatives.”

Some healthcare organizations don’t even bring clinicians into the vendor selection process as some administrators with little or no experience using EHRs, decide the selection. That results in physicians using substandard electronic records under which documentation can be so burdensome.

Healthcare organizations are best served by enhancing their core EMPI and EHR systems and implementing a multi-layered strategy across the network that will seamlessly match individuals to their medical records while giving providers timely, accurate access to their patient’s health.

Iatric Systems will operate as an independent business unit and will continue to develop integration technology help hospitals with EHR optimization, medical device integration interoperability and other functions.

Engaging key organizational stakeholders, driving efficiency and accountability through workflow redesign, and thorough testing and training enable organizations to realize the gains of a new RCM system while minimizing financial risk.

A survey conducted by Harris poll for Stanford medicine has reported that 56% of doctors who experienced burnouts said that it was caused by added administrative responsibility that were related to using EHR systems.

Email attacks such as phishing and ransomware can be prevented in health systems by using the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance Standard (DRMAC) but research shows only 1.7 percent of large healthcare organizations successfully use them.

The co-authors of The Law of Digital Health explains the benefits and challenges telemedicine and big data would bring to the standards of care and gives reasons why hospitals should adopt the technology

Integris Health turned to an identity governance (IG) vendor to help it know and control what users had access to as well as ensuring that users had the right access to information. This was after they had failed several security audits